EdTechTalk

Seems like our colleagues at Seedlings, Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes, and Alice Barr are right in declaring this the year of Student Voice, which they did in their wonderful conversation with Adora Svitak (2010-10-07 Seedlings Show # 94).

At Teachers Teaching Teachers we seem to be handing the microphones over to students more and more as well.

On this episode we are joined by students Martha (12th grade), Maci (6th), Michael (12th), Christian (12th) and Erin (college) in a rich, real discussion about out-of-school creativity!

Maci made this painting and published a poem called "Refreshing Day " on Voices on the Gulf.

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Geek of the Week LIVE from ACTEM the  State of Maine Technology Conference! Augusta, ME October 15, 2010! Alice, Bob and Cheryl  hit the road for a live show with over 200 participants from out of the 800+ who attend the Conference. All these people give up having a sit down lunch, grab a bag lunch and share their favorite URLs. Enjoy!

Delicious Links for Geek of the Week:

The Chat: Thanks to Peggy and Dennis for joining us in the Virtual Chat!

On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, teachers along the Gulf of Mexico and those of us who have working together for some time on Youth Voices begin to make some plans about for getting our students together via Skype and deepening our work on Voices on the Gulf and Youth Voices.

It’s not too late to get your students connected on these school-based social networks. We’d love to add their voices! Listen to this podcast, then make plans to join us this at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times.

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EdTechWeekly #172 

October 17, 2010

Regular hosts: Dave, Jen, John

Guest hosts: Lesley Edwards, Teacher/Librarian from North Vancouver, BC.

This Week's Menu:

• Dave's Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/learning_educational_technologies/media-li...

• Jen's Link: http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100-2010.html As we head into our two-week hiatus, Jen needs a link-dump fix!! No better place than Jane Hart's latest round-up of top learning resource links. In her fourth attempt to poll the greater edtech community, Jane's 2010 Top 100 Tools for Learning list includes contributions from over 530 educators and "closed" for new contributions today .. Sunday, October 17th. Let's take a minute and consider some of our past and current favorites to give Jen her edtech resource fix for the next couple of weeks! [oooh ... another resource roundup via a tweet from our guest host ... http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/10/best-of-edtech-web-2010.html ]

• John's Link: What is the role of social networking in improving our world? Gladwell says Twitter is not the revolutionary tool it's made out to be. The Twitter founders disagree. Meanwhile, anecdotal evidence suggests that social networking tools are having a tremendous effect when people need help.

• Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not be Tweeted, Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker.

• Twitter Founders: Gladwell Got it Wrong, Liz Gannes, Gigaom.

• Social Networking to the Rescue, Alexandra Gekas, Woman's Day.

• Lesley Edwards: - Experts and Newbies: In this new blog 4 High Tech High teachers write their ideas and experiences around using Project Based Learning (by the Buck Institute for Education) http://biepbl.blogspot.com/ And: WhatEdSaid - blog by Edna Sackson, Melbourne Australia

•       http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/

•       http://twitter.com/whatedsaid

Next week: No show on October 24 or October 31. We return November 7 with Connie Sitterley, Teacher / Technology Integration Specialist from Pennsylvania, and Kyli Yerse, school technology consultant.

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EdTechWeekly #171

October 10, 2010

Regular hosts: Dave, John